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| From | Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: How could have I factored this better? |
| Date | Sat, 21 May 2016 20:59:23 -0700 |
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Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks Humptydumpty for your example and for explaining how to use
> "u" in documentation for letting other programmers or myself
> latter realize that it's asking for only positive integers.
It implies a little extra too: namely that the number is treated as
unsigned in the code. That is, a bit pattern like $FFFFFFFF would be
interpreted as the largest positive number (around 4 billion) rather
than as the signed integer -1. In this case though, such large numbers
probably aren't relevant.
Note that unsigned's range includes 0, which is generally not considered
to be a positive number. If we want to indicate that a number comes
from the set {0,1,2,3...}, we generally say that the number is
non-negative.
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How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 13:09 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 16:18 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 10:25 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 13:39 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 21:33 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 10:23 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 15:44 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 14:38 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 17:49 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 14:57 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 18:34 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 16:00 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-20 20:08 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 17:24 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-05-21 18:15 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? Albert van der Horst <albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-05-21 10:01 +0000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:15 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-20 16:46 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-05-21 18:36 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 22:51 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-05-21 22:23 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:43 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 22:19 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-21 22:02 +0000
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 22:30 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 19:40 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 19:38 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-21 23:06 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-21 20:59 -0700
Re: How could have I factored this better? Darin Murphy <murphy.darin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-22 03:30 -0400
Re: How could have I factored this better? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-05-21 23:14 -1000
Re: How could have I factored this better? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2016-05-27 03:54 -0700
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